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Companies do not want these skills. If they did I would have a decent job right now. Companies want hard skills. Please stop telling your students these skills are valuable. My professors told me this when I was in school and I feel like I was lied to. These skills are worth the paper the degree is printed on - about 10 cents a copy.

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Penny, you are right. I work a part time minimum wage job and I had to go on food assistance. I make enough for rent and a couple of small bills, if it wasn't for assistance I wouldn't eat.

Companies either want interns, highschoolers or they poach workers from other companies, leaving the rest of us yearing for a chance at a real pay check.

I never call in sick, have a deep skill set and will do the work for 2 employees but all companies care about is resume key words. Last year I sent out over 200 resumes and heard back from 2 companies.

But, I digress. Minimum wage blows. If I made more I would put more back into this economy instead of being a drain on it.

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This was a good discussion for businesses but I would like to hear a discussion from the employee's point-of-view. My experience is there isn't a sustainable job for the employee anymore. Between greed, employment taxes and rising health care it's impossibe for semi-perminate employment or enough pay for an employee to save enough for thier emmimant layoff.

I've been underemployeed for two years now and I am burnt out on always hearing about the poor, poor businesses when I cannot even go to the doctor or travel home to see my family because there's no room in the budget.

What about the people? What are the sustainable jobs for the people?

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Sorry, but a person cannot quit a job and then recieve unemployment - they will get denied.

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